Last Words The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
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Nein
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Erscheinungsdatum
01.12.2007
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James GrauerholzVerlag
Grove AtlanticSeitenzahl
304 (Printausgabe)
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2046 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780802197238
From the author of Naked Lunch andone of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time comes the most intimate work he ever wrote, a complex portrait of Burroughs at the end of his life, coming to terms with aging and death.
Culled from journal entries of the last nine months of his life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concernsrants on U.S. drug policy, contempt of the state of the human race, his love for his catspermeate the book. He breaks into classic routines' and provides frequent commentary on whatever he is readingfrom high literature to low-brow thrillers.
The Old Man emerges as frequently comical, sometimes meditative, always engageda commentator on the state of the world and the self. Most significantly, Last Words reveals the most open and vulnerable Burroughs we have ever seen. His reflections on the deaths of his friends Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary provide a window on the preparations Burroughs was making for his own deatha quest for absolution marked by a profound sense of guilt and loss.
Last Words is unlike anything else in the oeuvre of William S. Burroughs. It is the purest, most personal work ever presented by this writer, and a poignant portrait of the man, his life, and his creative processone that never quit, even in the shadow of death.
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